User talk:DL548

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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:54, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Laser printing

With regret, I had to wp:revert your edit to Laser engraving because I think you chose the wrong article. (I could be wrong or out of date of course! let me know if you think I've misunderstood something.)

I think it belongs at Laser printing, an article which I suspect has fallen badly behind the times. If you have some expertise in this area, maybe you could broaden it out of the office? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 18:54, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JMF! Thanks for getting in touch. Laser printing and laser marking are often confused. If you think of an office laser printer, it's quite different from a laser that marks, engraves, etches, or ablates on the surface of a product or product packaging. The processes of laser marking and laser etching overlap. Since there is no laser marking page and the distinction between laser marking and laser etching was already being made on the laser engraving page, I edited there. Is it OK? DL548 (talk) 19:28, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I'll reinstate your change.

Speaking entirely theoretically without any practical experience to get in the way (!), I see a laser that " engraves, etches, or ablates" is clearly etching because they are subtractive processes. Additive processes like printing (ink deposition) seem qualitatively different?

Right now, laser marking redirects to laser engraving. I guess that we (aka you with a little help from me on mechanics) could create a dedicated "laser marking" page as a "wp:broad concept article" that sets out the general principles and tells readers which of the two articles is more likely to have the information they need. (If I wanted to know "they" can print the laying date on the surface of an egg, I'm not sure where I would go.)

Welcome again to Wikipedia. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:03, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I like where you're heading with a subtractive process, but some laser markers cause color changes to a surface and don't remove any material. Certain laser marking systems can indeed mark on eggs.

There are three common types of laser marking systems for products and packaging: CO2, fiber, and UV. Nd:YAG is another type but I don't know how common it is.

I agree that a laser marking page is needed! "Laser marking" is the accepted terminology used in manufacturing, not "printing" or "etching". Unfortunately, I don't have the time to work on another new page right now. I am trying to make enough edits to confirm my account so I can soon move my company's page from "draft" to being a published page. DL548 (talk) 20:17, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It is ironic that the engraving page disavows marking in its second para! See also list of laser articles.

You mentioned moving your company's page from draft to live. So I have to draw your attention to the policies WP:Conflict of interest and WP:paid editing. There is no minimum number of edits that will permit you to cross that barrier. So I strongly advise that you (a) read those policies and (b) ask for advice at the Wikipedia:Teahouse on how best to proceed (if at all). 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:27, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. Thank you! DL548 (talk) 20:30, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, DL548, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hi DL548. I've only posted the above as a courtesy. I realize you've already been advised about this both in the discussion thread above and at the Wikipedia Teahouse, but what I posted contains some links to relevant Wikipedia pages you might find helpful. It's very important that you comply with Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure because not doing so would be consider a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation's wmf:Terms of use and likely would lead to your account being blocked by a Wikipedia administrator. Please understand this policy applies to individuals, not particular accounts, per se, and it would also apply to anyone else working for your company or contracted by your company trying to edit/create Wikipedia content about your company on any Wikipedia page. Some other Wikipedia pages you might want to look at for reference are Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies), Wikipedia:Ownership of content, Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, Wikipedia:When your boss tells you to edit Wikipedia and Wikipedia:Large language models. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:41, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your thread has been archived

Hello DL548! The thread you created at the Teahouse, connected contributor or COI, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days.

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November 2025

Hello DL548. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:DL548. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DL548|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. In this archived discussion you have been discussing whether you are a paid editor. You are. This is the formal request to declare this. Full transparency is important. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 23:14, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help. I already added the COI disclosure to the Talk page and now I am learning how to add the template {{Paid}}. DL548 (talk) 23:11, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When I try to add the template {{Paid}} to the Talk page, I get an error message that tells me to use the template I'm already using:

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE.

DL548 (talk · contribs) has been paid by Videojet Technologies on their behalf.

Is this template incorrect? Should I remove it and then try adding {{Paid}} again? DL548 (talk) 23:16, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DL548. The template {{paid}} is, I believe, intended to be used on user pages, whereas the template {{Connected contributor (paid)}} is intended to be used on article talk pages. Typically, the latter is added as described in WP:TALKLEAD. The template you added to Draft talk:Videojet Technologies looks OK; you can now add also the "paid" template to your userpage if you want. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:31, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]